[Kolab-devel] Calendar events sent to Outlook client do not work

[Mat Cantin]

On 2013-03-23 5:47, Thomas Brüderli wrote:
> Mat Cantin wrote:
>> On 2013-03-08 4:20, Thomas Brüderli wrote:
>>> In order to track this down, could you please provide us an ics 
>>> invitation
>>> created/sent by Outlook (the full email source)? With this we could 
>>> find
>>> the differences to the ones Kolab sends out and thus try to "fix" 
>>> it.
>> 
>> I've attached two events. The first called Outlook-Invite.ics was 
>> sent from
>> an Outlook account to a Kolab account. The event was accepted which
>> generated the second attachment called Kolab-Accept.ics. As 
>> mentioned, this
>> second event created by Kolab does not work with any Outlook version 
>> I've
>> tried, it shows up as an attachment and the recipient cannot be 
>> accept or
>> update their Outlook calendar with it. The same Outlook behaviour 
>> happens
>> if the event is first created in Kolab.
> 
> The obvious difference between the two is the newline escaping in the
> DESCRIPTION field. This was a bug in Kolab [1] and is meanwhile 
> resolved.
> 

When can I expect to see this in kolab-3.0-development repo? Or can I 
attempt to install this myself?

> Can you check whether iTip invitations from Kolab will work if there's 
> no
> multiline description involved?
> 

I'm not sure that this is the problem. I've tried to manually edit the 
kolab-accept.ics file and removed the multiple lines in the description 
but Outlook continues to have the same issue.

--
Mat